Peel Off

Definition: Peel Off

Peel Off

Verb

1. Peel off the outer layer of something.

2. Take off, as with some difficulty; "He peeled off his blood-soaked shirt".

3. To leave a formation; of airplanes.

4. Come off in flakes or thin small pieces; "The paint in my house is peeling off".

5. Peel off in scales; of skin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Peel Off

Disjunction

Verb: be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose.

Crosswords: Peel Off

Just there is a mask you can peel off and another you can not. (Tanin no kao; writing credit: K�b� Abe)

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High Tech

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Expression using "peel off": peel off the skin on one's knees. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskilfer (flake, flake off, peel, scale, scale off). (various references)

Albanian

zhvoshket lëkura (Peel), leskëroj (scale). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنحرف للهبوط, ‏إنحرف عن السرب للانقضاض. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отделям се от формация самолети. (various references)

Chinese 

剝落 , 剝離 (be stripped, come off). (various references)

Czech

loupat (Hull, husk, peel, shell). (various references)

Dutch

afschilferen (flake off, scale off), afbladderen (flake off, scale off). (various references)

Esperanto

disskvamiĝi (flake off), deskvamiĝi (flake off, scale off). (various references)

Finnish

kesiä (scale off). (various references)

French

se détacher, écarter. (various references)

German

sich ablösen (alternate, become detached, come off, relieve each other, slough, soak off, take turns, work in relays), ausscheren (break formation, break rank, leave the line, sheer off, swing out, veer), abspringen (back out, bale, bale out, bounce off, chip, come off, dismount, flake off, jump, jump down, jump out, opt out, parachute, take off, to jump off), abschälen (peel away, peeling, pick off, strip), ablösen (detach, displace, pay off, peel away, redeem, relieve, remove, soak off, supersede, take over from, take the place of, unsolder). (various references)

Greek 

άνοιγμα χωρίς σκίσιμο. (various references)

Hungarian

lehámlik (flake off, to exfoliate, to flake away, to flake off, to peel off, to scale off, to spal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剥 (be worn off, come off, discolor, fade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はく (be worn off, chief official, come off, command esteem, commanding esteem, count, counter for nights of a stay, discolor, doctor, earl, eldest brother, exhibition, exposition, fade, fair, gain, gaining, oak, Ph.D., receive, receiving, to breathe, to brush, to disgorge, to gather up, to put on, to sweep, to tell, to vomit, to wear, uncle, win acclaim, winning acclaim). (various references)

Pig Latin

eelpay offay

Romanian

scoate de pe, scoate coaja (pare). (various references)

Russian 

облезть (grow bare, wear off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

perutati se (scale), oljuštiti (descale, hull, pare, shell), izdvojiti se. (various references)

Spanish

desconcharse (chip, fall away, fall off, flake, flake off, scale, scale off, shell off). (various references)

Swedish

ta av sig (shed, shuck), skala av. (various references)

Turkish

soyulmak, kabuğunu soymak (bark, decorticate, Hull, husk, pare, Peel, pod, remove the skin, shell, shuck, skin, skin out), inişe geçmek, dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, fall out, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail). (various references)

Ukrainian

виходити із загального строю. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: elope.

-3 letters: feel, flee, floe, flop, lope, peel, pele, pelf, pole.

-4 letters: eel, eff, elf, fee, foe, fop, lee, lop, off, ole, ope, pee, pol.

-5 letters: ef, el, lo, oe, of, op, pe.

+5 letters: flameproofed, flameproofer.